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1999 |
1998 |
| Abell Foundation (Baltimore) |
$250,000 |
$250,000 |
| Ahmanson Foundation (Beverly Hills, Calif.)1 |
$97,671 |
$103,407 |
| The Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundations (Bellevue, Wash.) |
$122,000 |
$93,000 |
| Baptist Community Ministries (New Orleans)2 |
$120,000 |
$125,000 |
| Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (Irvine, Calif.)3 |
$200,000 |
$200,000 |
| H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation (Palm Desert, Calif.) |
$60,000 |
$145,000 |
| Boettcher Foundation (Denver) |
$48,000 |
$57,000 |
| Booth Ferris Foundation (New York) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| James Graham Brown Foundation (Louisville, Ky.) |
$430,000 |
$222,600 |
| Buffett Foundation (Omaha)4 |
$200,000 |
$112,000 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) |
$30,000 |
$27,500 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Research Triangle Park, N.C.)3 |
$13,679 |
$13,387 |
| Bush Foundation (St. Paul)5 |
$75,000 |
$100,000 |
| Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation (Washington)6 |
$25,000 |
$25,000 |
| California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland)7 |
$37,500 |
$50,000 |
| California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills) |
$35,000 |
$79,000 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York2 |
$200,000 |
$190,000 |
| Amon G. Carter Foundation (Fort Worth) |
$34,298 |
$35,239 |
| Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust (Muscatine, Iowa)6 |
$40,000 |
$40,000 |
| Annie E. Casey Foundation (Baltimore) |
$80,000 |
$75,000 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Champlin Foundations (Warwick, R.I.) |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
| Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (New York)2 |
$148,000 |
$166,400 |
| Colorado Trust (Denver) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| Commonwealth Fund (New York)4 |
$25,000 |
$34,185 |
| Connelly Foundation (West Conshohocken, Pa.) |
$10,000 |
$17,500 |
| Cullen Foundation (Houston) |
$250,000 |
$250,000 |
| Danforth Foundation (St. Louis)8 |
$270,000 |
$100,000 |
| Arthur Vining Davis Foundation (Jacksonville, Fla.) |
$175,000 |
$175,000 |
| Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) |
$250,000 |
$1,300,000 |
| Duke Endowment (Charlotte, N.C.) |
n/a |
$66,636 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Jessie Ball duPont Fund (Jacksonville, Fla.)1 |
$125,000 |
$100,000 |
| Educational Foundation of America (Westport, Conn.) |
$70,000 |
$70,000 |
| Ford Foundation (New York)2 |
$100,000 |
$120,000 |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) |
n/a |
$250,000 |
| Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund (San Francisco) |
$10,000 |
$10,000 |
| Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation (New York) |
n/a |
$100,000 |
| Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund (San Francisco) |
$20,000 |
$25,000 |
| Miriam and Peter Haas Fund (San Francisco) |
$42,594 |
$35,032 |
| Hall Family Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.) |
$150,000 |
$200,000 |
| John A. Hartford Foundation (New York) |
$317,500 |
$415,200 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Charles Hayden Foundation (New York)4 |
$60,000 |
$50,000 |
| William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York) |
$75,000 |
$50,000 |
| Hearst Foundation (New York) |
$50,000 |
$40,000 |
| F.B. Heron Foundation (New York) |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.) |
$215,000 |
$176,500 |
| James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco) |
$175,000 |
$200,000 |
| J. Seward Johnson, Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust (Princeton, N.J.) |
$25,000 |
$20,000 |
| W. Alton Jones Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.) |
$75,000 |
$75,000 |
| Joyce Foundation (Chicago) |
$150,965 |
$150,000 |
| Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita) |
$15,000 |
$21,898 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.)4 |
$20,000 |
$40,000 |
| John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami) |
$75,000 |
$50,000 |
| Koch Foundation (Gainesville, Fla.)9 |
n/a |
$15,000 |
| Kronkosky Charitable Foundation (San Antonio) |
$40,000 |
$7,246 |
| Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe, N.M.) |
$25,000 |
$15,000 |
| Henry Luce Foundation (New York) |
$250,000 |
$200,000 |
| J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation (Tulsa, Okla.)3 |
$381,000 |
$316,000 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
| Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (Chicago) |
$60,000 |
$50,000 |
| McCune Foundation (Pittsburgh)2 |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| McKnight Foundation (Minneapolis) |
$60,000 |
$60,000 |
| Meadows Foundation (Dallas) |
$69,163 |
$70,000 |
| Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation (New York) |
$25,000 |
$25,000 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust (Vancouver, Wash.) |
$100,000 |
$88,900 |
| Nellie Mae Foundation (Braintree, Mass.) |
$45,000 |
$15,000 |
| Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Okla.)1 |
$40,000 |
$20,000 |
| Northwest Area Foundation (St. Paul)9 |
$57,925 |
$130,375 |
| John M. Olin Foundation (New York) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) |
$75,000 |
$50,000 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Park Foundation (Ithaca, N.Y.) |
$15,000 |
$12,500 |
| William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) |
$82,500 |
$82,500 |
| Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia) |
$400,000 |
$200,000 |
| Public Welfare Foundation (Washington)1 |
$30,000 |
$35,000 |
| Publix Super Markets Charities (Lakeland, Fla.) |
$7,500 |
$7,500 |
| Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (Indianapolis) |
$124,000 |
$114,000 |
| Donald W. Reynolds Foundation (Las Vegas)4 |
$20,000 |
$15,000 |
| Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (Winston-Salem, N.C.)3 |
$100,000 |
$75,000 |
| Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation (Winston-Salem, N.C.) |
$30,000 |
$30,000 |
| Sid W. Richardson Foundation (Fort Worth) |
$150,000 |
$150,000 |
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1999 |
1998 |
| Smith Richardson Foundation (Westport, Conn.) |
$91,000 |
$83,750 |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York) |
$100,000 |
$75,000 |
| Skillman Foundation (Detroit) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| Stuart Foundation (San Francisco) |
$100,000 |
$100,000 |
| Surdna Foundation (New York)4 |
$79,000 |
$74,000 |
| John Templeton Foundation (Radnor, Pa.) |
$100,000 |
$78,000 |
| Turner Foundation (Atlanta) |
$43,000 |
$39,100 |
| Wayne & Gladys Valley Foundation (Oakland, Calif.)2 |
$25,000 |
$25,000 |
| Victoria Foundation (Montclair, N.J.) |
$50,000 |
$50,000 |
| Robert A. Welch Foundation (Houston)3 |
$45,000 |
$42,000 |
| Whitaker Foundation (Rosslyn, Va.) |
$324,628 |
$369,800 |
Note: Foundations listed in this table provided median grant sizes for fiscal year 1999; the other 54 surveyed by The Chronicle did not provide such figures. The median figure shows the middle point in grant making, where half the foundation’s awards were larger and half smaller. Unless otherwise noted, figures cover fiscal years ending December 31.
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1 Fiscal year ends October 31.
2 Fiscal year ends September 30.
3 Fiscal year ends August 31.
4 Fiscal year ends June 30.
5 Fiscal year ends November 30.
6 Fiscal year ends April 30.
7 Fiscal year ends on the last day of February in the subsequent calendar year.
8 Fiscal year ends May 31.
9 Fiscal year ends March 31 in the subsequent calendar year.
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